A POTENTIALLY DEBILITATING VIRUS ... WE DON'T HEAR MUCH ABOUT ANYMORE ... ACTUALLY SAVED THE LIFE OF A COLLEGE STUDENT FROM SENECA.. AND BECAUSE OF IT .. SHE'S FEATURED IN PEOPLE MAGAZINE. NEW AT SIX.. WYFF NEWS FOUR'S MIKE MCCORMICK...WITH HER STORY TONIGHT ... FROM SPARTANBURG. 31:53 "right now, I'm just going to listen to his respiration." STEPHANIE LIPSCOMB.. CELEBRATES EVERY BREATH... 32:27 "i'm going to take his pulse. AND EVERY HEARTBEAT.. THE RESULTS.. OF THE PRESSURES.. OF LIFE. 22:16 "I wasn't given very long to live." SHE WAS HEADING TOWARD A DREAM OF HELPING CHILDREN.. BY BECOMING A NURSE. 12:11 "i'm an older sister to 4 girls." BUT AT 20 YEARS OLD.. SHE FOUND OUT THAT SHE'D BE GETTING THE CARE, SHE HAD HOPED TO BE GIVING. 15:54 "I SHE WAS HEADING TOWARD A DREAM OF HELPING CHILDREN.. BY BECOMING A NURSE. 12:11 "i'm an older sister to 4 girls." BUT AT 20 YEARS OLD.. SHE FOUND OUT THAT SHE'D BE GETTING THE CARE, SHE HAD HOPED TO BE GIVING. 15:54 "I was just kind of like, there's no way, absolutely no way. It was shocking." AFTER GETTING MISDIAGNOSED THREE TIMES.. LIPSCOMB LEARNED THAT HER CRIPPLING HEADACHES.. 13:48 "I couldn't even bathe myself or clothe myself." WERE BEING CAUSED.. BY A BRAIN TUMOR. 17:34 "I never felt like I was going to die, even after given my diagnosis." IT WAS AGGRESSIVE.. AND EVEN AFTER SURGERY.. 16:20 "When they removed it, it was the size of a tennis ball." RADIATION.. AND CHEMOTHERAPY.. THE CANCER CAME BACK. 19:57 "of course me and my mom cried." DOCTORS AT DUKE UNIVERSITY.. THEN OFFERED HER THE CHANCE.. TO BE THE FIRST HUMAN.. TO UNDERGO AN EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENT. 20:51 "before she even told me what it was, I was like, 'I'll do it. I'll do it.'" 21:26 "that was God in me." 21:41 "he was telling me, 'I've got you, Stephanie. This is your cure.'" LIPSCOMB HAD A MODIFIED VERSION OF THE POLIO VIRUS INJECTED INTO THE TUMOR WITH HOPES OF KILLING IT. SHE IS NOW CANCER FREE.. HER UNBELIEVABLE JOURNEY.. IS IN THE PEOPLE MAGAZINE ISSUE OUT NOW. 25:11 "it's amazing to me." IN DECEMBER.. SHE'LL GRADUATE FROM THE MARY BLACK SCHOOL OF NURSING AT U-S-C UPSTATE IN SPARTANBURG. 18:29 "God did not raise me to be 20 years and let me go through the things I went through to just kill me off with cancer at 20. I just felt like there was so much more to my life." HER NEW PLAN.. IS TO WORK WITH YOUNG CANCER PATIENTS.. SO SHE CAN HELP THEM LEARN.. WHAT LIFE.. TAUGHT HER. MIKE MCCORMICK, WYFF NEWS FOUR, SPARTANBURG.